Who Will Be Number One Pick In The 2025 Nfl Draft?

NFL Draft 2025

Venue: Green Bay, Wisconsin Dates: Thursday, 24 April - Sunday, 26 April Start: 20:00 EDT (01:00 BST, Friday)

Coverage: Live matter commentary via nan BBC Sport website and app from midnight

The hold is almost complete for thousands of NFL hopefuls.

After opening to reshape their rosters during the free agency period, NFL teams will now prime from nan latest batch of players to look from nan assemblage game.

They person been scouting nan apical prospects for months, pinch fans and media speculating complete who will prime who.

Now dreams will travel existent this play arsenic 257 players perceive their sanction being called retired astatine this year's NFL Draft.

All 32 teams person 1 prime successful each of nan 7 rounds - unless they person agreed trades - and they spell successful nan reverse bid of past season's standings, truthful nan squad pinch nan worst grounds gets nan first prime and nan Super Bowl winners spell last.

Going into nan last crippled of past season, nan New England Patriots were group for nan first prime of nan 2025 draft, but triumph complete a weakened Buffalo intends they now person nan 4th pick.

That near 3 teams connected 3 wins from nan 2024 play truthful nan draught bid was wished by nan spot of their schedule - nan grounds of their opponents.

The Tennessee Titans were truthful fixed nan first pick, while nan Cleveland Browns will take 2nd and nan New York Giants third.

Will Levis has grounded to found himself arsenic Tennessee's starting backmost and past season's back-up Mason Rudolph rejoined Pittsburgh successful free agency, truthful nan Titans are expected to spell for a QB.

There were a grounds six quarterbacks taken successful nan first 12 picks of last year's draft but a repetition is very unlikely.

Only 2 quarterbacks are among nan highest-rated prospects successful this year's draught class, namely Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward.

Sanders was nan early favourite to beryllium nan first wide draught prime but was replaced by Ward successful January, aft he led Miami to a 10-3 season.

The 22-year-old racked up 39 touchdown passes and 4,313 yards arsenic he wrapped up a five-year assemblage career, which included two-year stints pinch Incarnate Word and Washington State.

Ward, who is 6ft 2in, is now nan clear favourite though Sanders should soon travel arsenic some nan Browns and Giants besides request a quarterback.

Shedeur Sanders is nan youngest boy of erstwhile NFL prima Deion Sanders, who was his caput coach passim his assemblage career, which included 2 years astatine Jackson State followed by 2 astatine Colorado.

The 23-year-old's walk completion complaint of 74.0% was nan champion successful assemblage shot and helped Colorado to a 9-4 record.

Yet Ward and Oregon's Dillon Gabriel were nan 2 quarterbacks among nan 4 Heisman Trophy finalists, for nan champion assemblage player, which was won by Sanders' team-mate Travis Hunter.

The 21-year-old has been dubbed a 'unicorn' arsenic he is simply a genuine two-way subordinate - he plays important clip connected some defence and offence, arsenic a cornerback and wide receiver.

The past subordinate to do that successful nan NFL was Deion Sanders successful nan 1990s, which is partially why Hunter played nether him astatine Jackson State and Colorado, but NFL teams look unsure really champion to utilise him astatine nan apical level.

Hunter edged retired Boise State moving backmost Ashton Jeanty to triumph nan Heisman while Penn State walk rusher Abdul Carter is nan top-rated protect player.

Mason Graham (defensive tackle), Jalon Walker (linebacker) and violative linemen Will Campbell and Armand Membou are besides expected to beryllium early picks, while Jalen Milroe and Jaxson Dart are seen arsenic nan adjacent champion quarterbacks.

For nan first clip nan NFL Draft will beryllium held successful Green Bay, Wisconsin, location to nan league's astir successful franchise.

The Green Bay Packers person won nan astir championships (13) during nan NFL's 105-year history and nan metropolis became known arsenic 'Titletown' during nan 1960s.

This year's draught events will beryllium staged successful and astir nan Packers' iconic Lambeau Field and nan mixed-use improvement adjacent to nan stadium, which is called Titletown.

Green Bay is nan smallest marketplace successful nan NFL but 240,000 fans are expected to be nan draught this play - much than double nan city's population.

The first information of nan draught will return spot connected Thursday, 24 April, pinch Tennessee 'on nan clock' from 20:00 ET (01:00 BST, Friday).

Each squad has 10 minutes to get their prime successful during nan first round, which is held wholly connected time one.

Rounds 2 and 3 are held connected Friday, pinch rounds 4 to 7 connected Saturday.

You tin travel unrecorded matter sum of nan first information connected nan BBC website and app from 23:30 BST connected Thursday.

There will besides beryllium news updates connected immoderate notable stories from days 2 and 3 connected nan BBC website and app.